Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
Interpretation
We often endure suffering quietly instead of confronting it, allowing it to control our lives.
This quote suggests that many people tend to be overly accommodating to their pain and suffering, avoiding direct confrontation with it. Instead of addressing and overcoming these challenges, they let suffering take the lead in their lives, which may prevent them from living fully and joyfully.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health awareness, this quote can emphasize the importance of addressing suffering rather than ignoring it.
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.
It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind.
It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
Embrace the glorious mess that you are
Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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